A panel of
experts will discuss how Wisconsin’s hunting and fishing practices are being
affected by climate change at a free, public event offered in Stevens Point.

The panel
will be held Tuesday, April 1, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the Benjamin Franklin
Junior High auditorium, 2000 Polk Street. Four panelists will speak then answer
questions from the audience. The panelists include:

George Meyer, executive director of the Wisconsin Wildlife
Federation and former secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Natural
Resources

Mike Notaro, associate director of the Center for Climate
Research at UW-Madison

Ben Zuckerberg, professor of wildlife ecology at UW-Madison

Mitro,
Notaro and Zuckerberg are affiliated with the Wisconsin Initiative on Climate
Change Impacts, www.wicci.wisc.edu, created through UW-Madison’s
Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies and the Wisconsin Department of
Natural Resources.

The panel is
co-sponsored by the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point’s Wisconsin Center
for Environmental Education, the Citizens’ Climate Lobby-Central Wisconsin
Chapter, Wisconsin Wildlife Federation, Aldo Leopold Audubon Society,
350-Stevens Point, Friends of the Little Plover River, Interfaith Community for
the Earth, Trout Limited-Frank Hornberg Chapter and North Central Conservancy
Trust.